Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character eBook

FOOTNOTES:

[19] Distinguished examples of these are to be found
in the Old Greyfriars’ Church, Edinburgh, and
in the Cathedral of Glasgow; to say nothing of the
beautiful specimens in St. John’s Episcopal Church,
Edinburgh.

[20] “This was a square enclosure in the Greyfriars’
Churchyard, guarded on one side by a veteran angel
without a nose, and having only one wing, who had
the merit of having maintained his post for a century,
while his comrade cherub, who had stood sentinel on
the corresponding pedestal, lay a broken trunk, among
the hemlock, burdock, and nettles, which grew in gigantic
luxuriance around the walls of the mausoleum.”

[21] A Shetland pony.

[22] The Lord’s Supper.

[23] Bullock.

[24] Perhaps.

[25] Carefully selected.

[26] I recollect an old Scottish gentleman, who shared
this horror, asking very gravely, “Were not
swine forbidden under the law, and cursed under the
gospel?”

[27] Lie in a grovelling attitude. See Jamieson.

[28] So pronounced in Aberdeen.

[29] Implying that there was a James Third of England,
Eighth of Scotland.

[30] Old Scotch for “drink hard”.

[31] A friend learned in Scottish history suggests
an ingenious remark, that this might mean more than
a mere full drinker. To drink “fair,”
used to imply that the person drank in the same proportion
as the company; to drink more would be unmannerly;
to drink less might imply some unfair motive.
Either interpretation shows the importance attached
to drinking and all that concerned it.

[32] In Burt’s Letters from the North of
Scotland, written about 1730, similar scenes are
related as occurring in Culloden House: as the
company were disabled by drink, two servants in waiting
took up the invalids with short poles in their chairs
as they sat (if not fallen down), and carried them
off to their beds.

[33] Lord Cockburn’s Memorials of his Time,
p. 37, et seq.

[34] May we never be cast down by adversity, or unduly
elevated by prosperity.

[35] A toast at parting or breaking up of the party.

[36] Loving

[37] Plenty

[38] Toast for agricultural dinners

[39] Ghastly.

[40] The scene is described and place mentioned in
Dr. Strang’s account of Glasgow Clubs, p. 104,
2d edit.